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Brains, complexity, leaders
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| Our brain's area of control, our world view, and our ability to deal appropriately with the complexity we face are key factors in entrepreneurial and leadership success. The need to understand about the brain’s areas of control and to develop “blue zone control” becomes increasingly important as the business grows. Successful leaders are comfortable with the levels of complexity they confront and are constantly seeking new tools for dealing with the increased levels of complexity they know are around the corner |
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A positive work-out for your brain for business owners and would-be business owners alike
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| There are many of us that go to the gym to give our bodies a work-out, but how many of you give you mind a work-out too?
I would hazard a guess that not many people give their brain a physical work-out; there are those of you that have bought the "Nintendo Brain Tease", which is said to help our brains and our memory. However, this is not many people that even do this and what I have in mind is to change your thinking to a positive mode of thinking, so here goes my idea for a brain work out:
1. Each day you wake up make sure you "Think in a positive way". Begin your day with a big smile and take your mind off to a lovely place, a special place you would love to be. This could be a Caribbean Island or by your favourite lake, it does not matter, all that matters is that when you think about this place it makes you feel really good. |
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Leadership and Fear
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| As entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders, how do you learn? Learning by experience is not necessarily bad – sometimes, however, it can be extremely costly. Is it something that you can always afford? People with their brain’s locus of control in the “Blue Zone” are prepared to learn from coaches and mentors as well as from experience. |
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The Idea Harvester
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| A short article on how usability evolves products; how exploitation of customer brains moves innovation within industry. This article deals with the basic principles of "usability" -- the new computer science buzzword of the past two decades. Remember when people actually owned the things they made? Not anymore... |
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Demystifying the Geek Speak on Your Website
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| Confusion reigns in most people’s brains when the geeks start to speak. Computer geeks talk in some extra terrestrial language that seems more apt in a Star Wars movie than on your website. Once you break down the terminology it all starts to become less threatening and more like a now age game of hide and seek. Unlike traditional hide and seek where you spend the whole game trying not to be found. Now your purpose is to be so visible you can’t help but be found. |
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Fired or Fat
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| If given the choice, would you rather get fired or get fat? It looks like most Americans would prefer to take their chances in my boardroom. |
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Men and Cosmetic Surgery
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| Not that long ago I talked about a new study that found more and more women are becoming addicted to Botox. Now I read that men are fueling a boom in cosmetic surgery and other treatments. |
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Really Bad Powerpoint
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| I wrote this about four years ago, originally as an ebook. I figured the idea might spread and then the problem would go away--we'd no longer see thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with bullets.
Not only has it not gone away, it's gotten a lot worse. Last week I got a template from a conference organizer. It seems they want every single presenter to not only use bullets for their presentations, but for all of us to use the same format! Shudder.
So, for posterity, and in the vain hope it might work, here we go again:
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Guerrilla Learning
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| Let's start with the bad news. Much that you have learned in the past, although God's own truth at the time, has changed, leaving you misinformed or uninformed, so that a lot of what you know is wrong. In social situations, your lack of information is inconvenient, but in business, it's suicidal. |
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Guerrilla Marketing Yourself
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| Once you understand that people judge you from the first moment you meet them, and realize that there is a range of tools available to help support your positioning, you can be more successful in every encounter. |
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Retirement
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| Are you prepared for retirement? As a nation, our citizenry is getting older and older. At the turn of the century the average person lived less than three years after he retired. Now the average is more than five times that, and the typical 50-year-old of today will probably have twenty-plus years in retirement. |
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How to Never Forget Anything Again
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| The human brain is a wonderful thing, but it’s a bit faulty as a tool for remembering things. Luckily for us (and for our frazzled brains), technology has stepped in to help out. |
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The confusion
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| We frequently confuse internal biochemistry (caused by habits and genetics) with external events. If we didn't, marketing wouldn't work nearly as well. |
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Dumb Jocks … Or Smart Athletes?
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| We all know the stereotype. The great athlete didn't spend much time honing his intellectual skills; instead, all of his efforts were spent on the athletic field and thus, he tends to be lacking in the brains department. Like all stereotypes, this idea does not encompass all athletes, but still seems to be pervasive, especially among football players, where we all chuckle about the easy courses they take in college, etc. For example, it seems like 90 % of football players are Sociology majors, often the easiest curriculum at the university. However, some new research cited in Scientific American is stereotype breaking.
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Ten Steps To Take Charge of Conflict
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| The drama that often accompanies conflict is what gives conflict its bad name. Most of us veer away from screaming matches, stand offs and personal attacks.
But, conflict does have redeeming value … especially for those of us over 50. According to Barbara Strauch, author of The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain, we need to present our brains with things that make it wake up, pay attention, and work really hard. To give your brain a workout, Strauch suggests talking with people who disagree with you because it helps you sharpen your own thinking and challenges you. So having conflict in your life can actually make you smarter.
To benefit from benefits of conflict, and lose the drama, here is what I have learned about taking charge of conflict.
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WHY DO MARKETERS LEAVE THEIR BRAINS AT THE DOOR WHEN THEY CREATE THEIR WEBSITES?
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| A important Tip to keep in mind before creating your website. |
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Book Review: How We Decide
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| I’ve always known that a marketing message should “connect” with your prospective customer’s emotions. The traditional explanation has been that emotions truly rule the decision making process. This book explains why this mantra isn’t quite right. |
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Avoiding Your Feelings? Find out Why and What to Do About It
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| Do you wonder what's causing you to avoid your feelings and emotions rather than expressing them in a healthy way to get past obstacles? Find out the root cause and what you can do to get beyond those limits. |
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Consciously Choose Your Social System
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| Why is it important to consciously choose your social system? We are born into a family which is a social system and we react to the rest of the world based on how we interact with our original social system. Now you are an adult, you want to be aware of your social system and be deliberate about who you choose to allow into your space.
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Improve Your Financial Future - Start Thinking Like a Rich Person
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| Improving your financial future and working to become rich starts with changing your mindset. Retraining the way you think so you will be better informed to make better decisions that will help make you rich. This article describes some methods you can implore to start thinking differently than you do today. |
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It is What it Is - And Why That's OK
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| Accepting that everything and everyone in your life is, simply, exactly what it is, is a powerful perspective. When you do this, you don't have to waste time wishing things were different, complaining about how things are or wondering how you might have stopped it. All you have to do, is see (accept) what is, decide how you want things to be moving forward, and get on with your life. |
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The Brain That Changes Itself
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| Here’s a tip-read Norman Doidge’s book “The Brain That Changes Itself.” The author points out that an astonishing new science called neuro-plasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. |
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Dealing With Different Personality Types: What M&Ms Teach You About Life
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| At any given moment, our brains are being exposed to millions of bits of sensory information. What makes this interesting is that each of us filters out different sensors, so we each are experiencing a different “reality,” often without realizing that this reality is unique to us. |
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Why Internet Explorer Must Die
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| If you’re someone who lives more in the online world, you’re sure to have heard of or participated in the eternal battle of the browsers – IE vs. others. If you’re a new denizen of the World Wide Web, you would want to know which browser best suits your online needs, but chances are, you’ve already been warned off Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. This is not just because of IE’s poor track record as a browser, but also no concrete changes being made to newer versions, despite Microsoft one of the biggest players in the market. So, we decided to debate why newer browsers are much more preferable when compared to IE one by one so as to make your choice easier for you. |
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Overcome Fear - Step Into the Fear
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| Everyone experiences fear. The difference with successful people is that they do not let fear stop them from achieving their goals. |
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Are You Into Legitimate Small Home Business?
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| 1.Are YOU a new Online Small Home Business Owner? Or Are YOU an experienced Online Small Home Business Owner?
2.Are YOU facing multiple challenges within various aspects of your Internet based Online Small Home Business?
3.Have YOU ever thought that YOU will have to make one more effort to find a suitable small home business association to overcome some of the challenges that YOU are facing in this current competitive business environment?
If YES, then continue reading…. |
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6 things you must know to attract affluent clients
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| Do You Want To Learn The Insider Secrets to Find People that Value Your Expertise, Are Willing to Pay Premium Prices and Will Build Your Business FOR YOU By Raving To All Their Wealthy Friends? |
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What Can a Drag Queen Teach Sales Professionals?
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| So what can a sales professional learn from RuPaul? No one—not even prospects, customers or managers--no one can make you not fabulous. |
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Your learning/self-improvement process is probably obsolete
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| I don't know enough. The pace of change in the world of sales, sales management and consulting is such that my traditional process for learning simply can't keep up. I know you're in the same boat. Guess what? We can help each other. |
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Close Those Deals With Value Sharing
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| Most people are finding it just that bit harder to sell business services in today’s tough markets?
Not because of competition - but because customers are holding off writing deals.
What can we do to get them moving? |
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The Action Habit And How It Helped My Internet Business
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| This article is about how you can develop healthy habits, such as the action habit.
Many people in life do not take action because they say it does not feel right. Whilst studying clinical hypnosis I have developed many ways to overcome these traits that so many people have.These skills have helped me to help many other people in focusing and reaching their goals. |
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Attitude-- Pick a good one
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| As the saying goes, “Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?” Here are 5 keys to creating a more positive attitude. |
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Digital Bytes – The Challenge of Balancing Real, Virtual Worlds
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| People jog off cliffs, they walk into manholes, they walk into the middle of the street without looking, they go through meals never looking away from their screen -- regardless of which one it is -- updating their social media, viewing/responding to emails...moving around the virtual world missing some of the really neat stuff going on in the real world. Hey we're guilty too!!
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How to change your life in just 90 seconds!
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| You know those self help books you see on the shelf at the book shop that tell you you can change your life in six months - six weeks - six days - Even 24 hours? Well they're right! In fact, all you need to do is follow the 90 second rule and you can begin to move away from where you are now and towards where you want your life to be. Just 90 seconds is all it takes. |
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Introvert Coach Tip - Top 3 Ways the Introvert and Extrovert Brains Differ
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| Introvert or extrovert the commonality for us is both have a brain. If it's true about introverts brains being different than extrovert brains then what about our brains make the distinctions in preferences more understandable? |
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What You Think is What You Do (and Who You Are)
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| Most people when they want to figure things out or change what is going on in their lives tend to focus on the external…the doing. They say to themselves, “What do I need to be doing differently?” When the question should be, “How am I thinking about this situation?” Anything we do in the ‘external’ has its genesis in our brains…the internal. Whatever is happening outside of us in our lives is a reflection of what is going on inside of us…specifically, inside our brains. So if we want to change, we need to focus first on how we think about it…whatever it is. How are we connecting the dots and how can we build new hardwiring so that we can travel a different road to where we actually want to go instead of the old road that keeps dumping us off in the same place that isn’t working for us. |
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Borrow Some Brains
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| Of course you don't have all the answers or even the right questions all the time. That's why it's great to have your "tribe". People you trust and respect who don't exactly think like you and will challenge the way you see things. They will also have different pools of knowledge that you can dive into for pearls of wisdom you would otherwise miss out on. So go ahead, borrow some brains today! |
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Who do you report to?
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| If you are a business owner, who holds you accountable? This is a major issue most small business owners never think about. Larger businesses have Boards of Directors who are legally responsible for oversight. Even many smaller business have them as well, and others prefer to use a Board of Advisors. Regardless of how you create accountability, it is a proven fact that you will do a better job as a leader within your organization if you have an external individual or body of people you are accountable to. This article provides insights into how you can create and utilize some form of Board governance for your business. |
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Decisions based on emotion = BAD for business
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| In recent years, there has been a rise in discussion and research around what makes a good leader good. From those discussions, a new field of study and measurement has arisen,. It is called Emotional intelligence, or EQ. (Don't ask me why it isn't EI, but it's not.) In simple terms, EQ is the ability to know and control your emotions, and the ability to recognize and empathize with the emotions of others. For the expertrs in this field, please, don't get your feathers ruffled. Defining EQ is not the point. The point is, emotion does NOT belong in business, and often leads to really bad decisions. Emotion seems to play the biggest role in family owned business where family members are either co-owners or employees. This article talks about how to handle these situations, whether you are on the verge of wading into one, or already there. |
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Customer Service do you get it
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| Building relationships is the cornerstone of all sales - how do you get started? |
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Listen, Listen, Listen
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What's Happening to Your Husband?
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| Women know that their husbands have changed (not for the best); men think it's all their wives' fault. What's a woman to do? |
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What to keep in your brain.
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| This article goes back to that first best personal information manager - our brain - and how that should fit in with your personal information management strategy. There are some tasks at which no gadget or app will ever outperform it - so don't waste time trying. And then what to do with the info the brain is not so good at? We suggest some solutions. |
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The Definitive Guide to GROWING Your Business During the Economic Crisis
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| You might be wondering why I wrote the word “GROWING” in all caps. Because that is exactly what you need to be doing right now. Many business owners freak out and they hide in their caves waiting for the bad times to pass by. That doesn’t make any sense. If you are just waiting until you see the light at the end of the tunnel, your ship will most likely sink.
I would like to share with you some ideas to grow your business during the economic crisis.
Profit from your current customers
As obvious as this idea may be, you will be surprised with the number of business owners that sell a customer just once. Call your previous customers and find out how you can help them. According to statistics, someone who bought from you in the past is five times more likely to buy from you again than a new prospect. |
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Ready to Snap Crazy Busy and the Lure of Modern Life
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| We expect our brains to keep track of more than they can handle and then find ourselves losing and forgetting things — impatient, anxious, worried and plagued by short attention spans. Modern life, for all of its timesaving conveniences, is sapping our creativity, humanity, joy and, occasionally, our sense of humor.
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Want to increase sales? productivity? focus? Stop cluttering your mind with useless information. Einstein, was right all along, take these simple tips and apply them today!
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| In this world of information overload, memorizing useless information and/or keeping everything in your head is the equivalent a having a really bad hang over, when it comes to productivity and focus. Our brains need a break, just like our computers, we must keep them clean and get rid of junk. It is time to purge, and get focused. |
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POSITIVE THINKING
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| Reframe your thoughts to state things in the positive, as our brains capture any thought whether positive or negative. |
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Brainpower For The Overwhelmed
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| Another great article about our overwhelming schedules, information overload and constant, unrelenting stress. Eileen discuss how we got to where we are and gives meaningful tips to help us relieve stress and get in control. |
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How To Really Get The Competitive Advantage Over Your Competition
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| One of the hot catchphrases being bounced around a lot in business these days is “competitive advantage.”One of the cool things about being an entrepreneur and business author and speaker is that I get to use all kinds of big words and phrases that make me sound much smarter than I am. |
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How To Really Get The Competitive Advantage Over Your Competition
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| One of the hot catchphrases being bounced around a lot in business these days is “competitive advantage.”One of the cool things about being an entrepreneur and business author and speaker is that I get to use all kinds of big words and phrases that make me sound much smarter than I am. |
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Why Women Entrepreneurs Differ from Men
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| “Many people perceive a style difference as the other person’s personal failing.”
Deborah Tannen
Have you noticed? Women and Men aren’t just dissimilar below the neck. They often act and express themselves differently as well. That is due to changes in an entirely different area than below the belt. It is their brain, which is located above the neckline. In general, she says “slow” and he says “go.”
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The Science of Differentiation
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| There is enough evidence in the annals of branding to convince even the most skeptical small business owner that differentiation is a critical component of building a successful brand – yet there are very few that embrace the concept.
For those of you that are not convinced, there is another way to look at differentiation - through brain science. The human brain, in its mysterious glory, thrives on differentiation. |
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10 SIMPLE (but not easy) STEPS TO TURNING A COMPANY AROUND
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| ten simple steps that can help turn your company around and increase productivity of your staff |
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Hard Work Never Made anyone Rich!
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| The Lessons I learnt from a Fallen Tree.
What are the two most valuable resources in your business? |
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Business Literacy Stimulates Entrepreneurial and Personal Mastery—Part 1
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| In this series, I will share the traits, actions and strategies pertaining to entrepreneurs I’ve gathered over two decades. Business Literacy™ adds order to chaos and reason to scattered efforts and information. |
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Ten Ways to Boost Your Productivity
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Productivity is not just about doing more. It's about working smarter to get more things done. But to be really efficient, it takes effort and practice. Here are a few tips to help you learn to get more out of each and every day. |
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Inquiry As A Replacement For Self Doubt
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| I had several conversations with entrepreneurs this week who were struggling with a specific issue that had plagued them for a while. In each case these are strong, capable entrepreneurs who I’ve known for a long time. As with all entrepreneurs (and humans), they have strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots. In each case, I felt like self-doubt had crept into their brains around the specific weakness they were struggling with. |
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Marketing Snake Oil
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| For the longest time, I associated people who market and advertise with evil. I hated seeing advertisements telling me "if only I bought this, I would be cool also". I couldn’t imagine what type of person became a marketer or advertiser. Now I am one. |
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High Price Raises Perception of Quality
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| In an article in the January 2008 Economist magazine, a study was cited that was done by Dr. Antonio Rangel of the California Institute of Technology. Rangel found that if people are told a wine that they are tasting is expensive, the perception in their brain evolves to increase the quality of the wine they had consumed based on nothing other than higher price meaning a higher quality. |
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Your customers, their Amygdala and Sabre-Tooth Tigers
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| The emotional buying decisions....how do your customers make up their mind and how to make your customers life easy... |
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On Leadership by Allan Leighton
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| I totally believe if you want to improve a certain skill then you should model yourself on someone who already has had success in that skill. |
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How to Be More Positive at Work
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| Scientists are experimenting to discover new ways to boost positivity. Because of the brain’s neuroplasticity, we can rewire it to create new thought habits and become more positive. |
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12 Qualities of Happiness
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| Learn the qualities of happiness and look at ways you can increase your happiness level in all areas of your life! |
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Successful People are Self-Taught…ALWAYS!
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| Before anyone gets in a twist, this isn’t MBA bashing or PhD envy. However, every successful person I’ve ever met is and continues to be self-taught... |
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What I learnt From One Of The UK’s Best Selling Business Authors
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| A few months ago, I embarked on a new project, The Great Successful People Package to interview numerous top successful individuals, in order to pick their brains on what made them a success and what important points they had learnt over the years. I did this with the goal of sharing their advice and proven ideas with others.
I have choosen from hundreds of ideas, this one because it was simple and it worked for me!
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WHAT'S DRIVING US TO DISTRACTION?
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| Is new technology helping us or hindering us? |
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It’s The Little Things That You Do……..
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| For many of us, life is experienced in our heads, rather than fully felt in our bodies. Our brains are bombarded with so much information from every corner, and in consequence, so much is missed. Especially the little things. |
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The Power of Intention
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| Perhaps one of the worst forms of multitasking is when we're trying to spend “quality” time with a loved one, while also trying to be “productive.” I'll never forget an experience I had years ago when I went to my daughter's soccer game on a day that I was feeling overwhelmed and behind. I had grabbed the mail on the way out the door. In my attempt to be efficient with my time, I was sorting through the mail while watching the game. Unfortunately, I was looking down when my daughter made her only goal of the game. I felt terrible when someone said, “Did you see that? Your daughter just made a goal!” Although she never knew, it was one of those moments I could never get back. (I could have read the mail anytime.) |
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Busy, frantically busy or unbelievably busy?
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| Learning the art of the impossible – how to be a relaxed PR person with time for the big things that do count |
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